- We noticed quite a bit of comic-related chatter across the tweet-wire today, and wanted to clue you in on Kevin’s plans in the world of comics. “Batman: Widening Gyre” is enjoying great success, with the series headed to hiatus after issue #6 (2 to go — Take a peek at a nice review of issue #4 courtesy of GeekWeek). After the hiatus, the next 6 issues will focus on another new trainee hero as Baphomet goes on to his own book.
Yep, while “Gyre” is gone, Kevin’s writing the new series based on Baphomet, the new character introduced in “Gyre”, titled “Gotham Babylon”. He’s already got the first 3 scripts in the can. Walt Flanagan will be back to draw all the pretty pictures.
A trade paperback collecting all of “Widening Gyre” is planned, hopefully to coincide with the release of the new “Babylon” book.
While these two stories tie together, Kevin and Walt’s first effort, “Batman: Cacophony”, was always meant as a standalone story.
Finally, for those of you wondering about that OTHER non-Batman related effort, namely, the “Green Hornet” series, Kevin has confirmed, via an upcoming interview with Comic Shop News, that all 10 issues of “Green Hornet” are written. We dig this quote a lot, too:
What could have started simply as, ‘here, take the script and let me see it when you’re done’ has become much more than that things would kick in, like ‘I remember in an earlier draft I had a scene involving Brit and his wife, so is there enough space to fit that in?’ Suddenly, you’re bringing something to it that wouldn’t have been there had you made the movie. And it’s not like I cut this out of the script because it was terrible. You cut stuff for time, but in comic book form we’ve got time for character development, and that will enhance any story. I’ve been looking at the breakdowns and going, ‘hey man, this scene could totally fit back in here, so I’m going to reinstate that scene.’
Comic Shop News can be found in most local comic shops, and is a free mini newspaper. Ask for it if you don’t see it.
Yep, with all this big comic news coming across the wire, your head might be spinning a bit, but we’ll keep it clear, and always remind you as the new books arrive. Kevin and Walt are quite the team, and we’re pleased to see that they’re continuing this great partnership into more titles.
Archive for January 22nd, 2010
The “Twitter” Report…
- A mystery Red Bank event in August. Ticket leftovers in Toronto. Anderson-signed script pages for charity. All that and more in today’s edition of the “Twitter” report, actual tweets from @ThatKevinSmith:
Via @BrandonConsoli “what kind of feel is hit somebody gonna have?” I’m going for FORREST GUMP of sports films. Big valentine to the Game.
Via @LeakingPan “Just got tickets to a prescreening for tomorrow” Score me up, Homey: I wanna make A BIGGER COP OUT after HIT SOMEBODY.
Via @dibbs34 “LOVED The Smomcast. does she return for next weeks as well?” For two solid hours. One of ’em completely baked. S’awesome.
Re: Toronto’s Roy Thomson Show, Feb 6th – 23 tix freed up on TicketMaster. 63 full view. 48 partial view. http://tinyurl.com/tdotkev
Via @rosecity1980 “ticketmaster is turning me down, sir. says they got nothing…again” Call Roy Thomson box office. They’ve got some there.
DailyDevils: @NHLDevils want to get to 10k followers, and they’re giving out 100 pairs of tickets to do so! http://bit.ly/7bW2hK #devs10k
A request from Jeff Anderson (and a rare chance to get a signed page from his CLERKS II script): http://tinyurl.com/arequestfromjeffanderson
Via @themuckshow “is it worth the 9+hr drive from Ont 2 NJ just to see a store?” It’s gonna be, the weekend of August 2nd…
Yes, all we can confirm right now is that early August weekend will bring something big to Red Bank. But for now…No further deets. When we know, so will you.